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Continuing the archive of independent Monsters reporting (Archive Page 2).

Menagerie of Unbearable Things: TTRPG monsters and what love did to them

July 2, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Menagerie of Unbearable Things is a system neutral TTRPG compendium of tragedy. An art and story-heavy bestiary of monsters and what love did to them. 

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, monsters

Short film: Hept (survival horror)

May 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you ever wondered why some characters in survival horror have survived so long? I’m asking because it’s a mean thing, yet I do it.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, blender, monsters, short film

Chthonstone Essential Enemies bundle: Weird monsters for Old-School Essentials

January 9, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A porcine faerie of the darkest kind. Her hut drags itself along like a slug. The centipede-bodied Grumblewyrm shares her taste for the flesh of dwarves.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Chthonstone Games, monsters, old-school essentials

Short film: The Brightest Star

December 18, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tompswell, the Finland-based animator, is the talent behind the award-winning The Brightest Star. It’s the story of a kid who falls into a cave.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, monsters, short film

How Covid and speculative evolution creature design led to a 5e bestiary

November 18, 2024 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

This sort of evolutionary ruleset became a tool for world building like I never experienced.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, monsters

Are these the warmest monsters in your bed?

October 15, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you know who invented microwavable soft toys? Philip Gannon did, and he also founded Intelex Group in 1995.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: monsters, shopping

These mimic dice are marvellously spooky

October 10, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

With Halloween coming up, I’ve been nosing around spooky dice like the giant Eyes of Chaos and stumbled on Doldols’ Chest Mimic D20s.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: dice, models, monsters

This freaky cool spider Mimic chest will guard your dice and jewellery

February 3, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re used to fighting Mimics on the way to get loot but what about using a Mimic to protect yours?

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: dice box, Etsy, household, monsters

A Worldwide Tour of the boogeyman: Scared kids don’t learn

October 31, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Boogeyman is a mythical creature adults use to frighten children into good behaviour.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: cartography, monsters

Hunt and eat monsters: Wilderfeast RPG (and cookbook)

September 15, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The One Land is not an easy place to live. It is littered with both the bones of extinct species and the ruins of fallen civilizations. But after each apocalypse, something new and green grows from the ashes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: food, kickstarters, monsters

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